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	'<{title}>' => 'Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The <a href="https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/">Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project</a> is a project with a mission to repair damaged ecosystems in the Blue Mountains and Cascades here in Oregon (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, n.d.).
			Their main base of operation seems to be in Fossil, Oregon (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, n.d.).
			one of the main ways they try to repair the damaged ecosystems in the area is to work to halt logging in those mountains, or at least significantly alter the practice to be less harsh on the environment.
			One project that they&apos;ve had to revisit repeatedly was to stop the logging of old growth fir trees at Walton Lake (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, n.d.).
			The forest service has repeatedly tried to sell off those trees to a logging company, always being deceptive in the process.
			They claim to the public that the trees will merely be thinned, but the actual written proposal is always one that authorises a full clear cut.
			They also have tried using that claim of the area only being thinned to keep the public&apos;s window of time they could react shorter than it should&apos;ve been, though that got the forest service sued by the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project.
			Old growth forests are important for older ecosystems that have grown up within them.
			They&apos;re not a resource we can replace quickly; they need hundreds of years to reach that state, and in that time, the life that depended on them dies away.
			From the sound of it, authorising the clear cut was outright illegal on the part of the forest service (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, n.d.).
		</p>
		<p>
			No matter the biodiversity project, it deals with getting humans to modify their behaviours toward the ecosystem in question.
			In this case, the project&apos;s goal is to prevent harmful logging done by humans in ecosystem the project seeks to preserve and restore.
			There are a few ways for individuals to get involved with the project.
			Volunteers are taken and trained for a yearly field check in the summer, in which they identify flora and fauna.
			They may look for other things as well in proposed logging areas, but the website doesn&apos;t go into detail as to what; it simply says volunteers will be trained as to what to look for in said areas.
			Depending on what skills a volunteer has, they can also help in other ways; the mentioned example is that people with videography or photography skills can help promote and document the project.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. (n.d.). Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. Retrieved from <a href="https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/"><code>https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/</code></a>
			</p>
			<p>
				Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. (n.d.). Walton Lake Old Growth Logging Stopped | Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. Retrieved from <a href="https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/walton-lake-old-growth-logging-stopped-again-by-blue-mountains-biodiversity-project/"><code>https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/walton-lake-old-growth-logging-stopped-again-by-blue-mountains-biodiversity-project/</code></a>
			</p>
			<p>
				Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. (n.d.). Get Involved! | Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. Retrieved from <a href="https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/get-involved/"><code>https://bluemountainsbiodiversityproject.org/get-involved/</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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